Soap opera reaps prize for its clean message
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A Vietnamese soap opera, based on the UK radio drama The Archers, is one of the winners of a World Bank competition for ideas to improve the livelihoods of people in the developing world. The radio drama aims to teach Vietnamese rice farmers about sustainable farming, by weaving pest-management principles into the loves-and-hates storyline of a typical soap opera.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2005
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The gadget known as IVEO, one of the newest assistive technologies for the blind, is the invention of John Gardner, a solid-state physicist turned entrepreneur who is also blind. It is his new invention in a long line of products that he has invented to remove barriers that prevent the visually impaired from fully appreciating mathematics and science.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2005
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Georgia court bans biology textbook stickers
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The second largest school in Georgia, Cobb County School District started placing stickers in newly adopted high school biology textbooks in the spring of 2002. On 13 January, Clarence Cooper, a judge at the district court in Atlanta ruled that the sticker misleads students regarding the significance and value of evolution in the scientific community.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2005
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